Olympic fans warned over touts

Sports fans trying to buy London 2012 tickets from foreign websites have been warned to to be 'extremely cautious about touts
12 April 2012

Organisers of London 2012 have warned sports fans trying to buy tickets from foreign websites to be "extremely cautious" about touts.

The warning came after the Sunday Times highlighted that tickets can be bought through agents based abroad.

A reporter at the newspaper bought a pair of tickets for the athletics finals on August 9 from German agent Dertour.

This is while many Britons wait to see if they have been allocated tickets in the ballot system used here.

A spokesman for the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) said that a total of 1 million tickets had been located to Olympic committees in around 200 countries outside the UK.

LOCOG itself has 6.6 million which are being allocated through the ballot.

The spokesman said: "There are a number of unofficial websites claiming to sell tickets, we therefore advise people to be extremely cautious and vigilant when attempting to buy tickets and only purchase from an official source - if in doubt there is a url checker on our website which will identify official sources.

"There are a total of 8.8 million tickets on sale for London 2012. We have 6.6 million tickets available via our application process, whereas countries around the world have a total of approximately 1 million tickets between them for international fans."

Similar systems were used for the games in Beijing, Athens and Sydney, he said.

A full list of authorised re-sellers is available at www.tickets.london2012.com. Dertour is an authorised reseller of 2012 tickets.

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